[TW5] Prerelease of 5.1.9

[Jeremy Ruston]

I've just posted a new prerelease of 5.1.9 that includes three improvements:

* new high contrast colour palettes for visually impaired users

* a new mode where the sidebar has a fixed width and the story river expands to fill the remaining space. The sidebar width can be an absolute number of pixels, or a percentage of the browser window

* a new toolbar button to open a tiddler in an external window

I demonstrated the last two features on yesterday's hangout. The prerelease can be found at:

http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease

Please, please don't start using the prerelease for anything important - several people got burned by this in the past, don't join them!

Thoughts and feedback gratefully received,

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[Mat]

All very cool. Thank you Jeremy!

* new high contrast colour palettes for visually impaired users

I believe it is an old issue (and you may have even brought it up in the hangout?), but trying to select a color for "Background:" and "Foreground:", via the popup palette, does not work. Win8.1 FF/Chrome 

 

* a new toolbar button to open a tiddler in an external window

For the help sections or even individual "articles" showing in the help, to externalize to separate would be of value - particularly for the videos that may contain details.

Also, when I now visit a tiddler with a video and externalize it, I notice that resizing the window does not resize the youtube frame. Smooth resizing of embedded video would be useful in any tiddler, but particularly for such "external windows". Not directly an "external window" issue but IMO particularly obvious there.

(Apropos the Help frame; scrolls appearing in, at least FF and Chrome, are still an issue as mentioned in the 5.1.8 thread)

<:-)

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Mat

I believe it is an old issue (and you may have even brought it up in the hangout?), but trying to select a color for "Background:" and "Foreground:", via the popup palette, does not work. Win8.1 FF/Chrome 

Odd, it works for me in FF and Chrome on OS X. What do you see and happens instead?

  

Also, when I now visit a tiddler with a video and externalize it, I notice that resizing the window does not resize the youtube frame. Smooth resizing of embedded video would be useful in any tiddler, but particularly for such "external windows". Not directly an "external window" issue but IMO particularly obvious there.

The current theme doesn't resize videos any larger than their natural size (as we do for images). Does anyone else have views on whether we should change that?

 

(Apropos the Help frame; scrolls appearing in, at least FF and Chrome, are still an issue as mentioned in the 5.1.8 thread)

Yes, I've not done anything to fix it yet.

Thanks,

Jeremy

 

<:-)

[Mat]

I believe it is an old issue (and you may have even brought it up in the hangout?), but trying to select a color for "Background:" and "Foreground:", via the popup palette, does not work. Win8.1 FF/Chrome 

Odd, it works for me in FF and Chrome on OS X. What do you see and happens instead?

[Summary: OS fault, not TW]

Hm, I thought this was a known issue which made me try it more carefully: turns out I've always tried to pick a color in the "rainbow" which is what not works. The "selected" color just stays black. But, surprise, selecting predefined colors do work! AND I selecting a predefined color and thereafter from the rainbow, also works!

Because it is the identical palette for both FF and Chrome, I guess this is an OS feature (and bug).

<:-)

[PMario]

On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 9:55:53 PM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote:

 

Also, when I now visit a tiddler with a video and externalize it, I notice that resizing the window does not resize the youtube frame. Smooth resizing of embedded video would be useful in any tiddler, but particularly for such "external windows". Not directly an "external window" issue but IMO particularly obvious there.

The current theme doesn't resize videos any larger than their natural size (as we do for images). Does anyone else have views on whether we should change that?

As I wrote in the "overflow:auto" issue at github. .. This is a general problem with embedded videos. IMO there could be a macro, with some magic CSS to create a container, that automatically resizes and keeps the aspect ratio (which is the main pain point)

-mario

[Mat]

Embedding videos to get dynamic resize, maybe this can help;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2atu-W2iHPY 

<:-)

[Alex V]

Thanks for the prerelease!

I noticed the external window doesn't get a scrollbar when the content doesnt fit (on Firefox 37). So when you open the TiddlyWiki Pre-release tiddler in an external window, most of the content is not reachable.

-Alex

[PMario]

On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 11:14:25 AM UTC+2, Mat wrote:

Embedding videos to get dynamic resize, maybe this can help;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2atu-W2iHPY 

There is a very good blog post, that describes the problem and presents a solution:
http://fettblog.eu/blog/2013/06/16/preserving-aspect-ratio-for-embedded-iframes/

I did test it and imo it can be easily convered in a macro. Just give me some time.
-mario

[PMario]

On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 11:39:58 AM UTC+2, PMario wrote:

I did test it and imo it can be easily convered in a macro. Just give me some time.

I did create a github proposal, that contains a code snippet, that can be used for testing.
see: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1699

-mario

[David Gifford]

Very nice features! Thanks Jeremy.

Dave

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Alex

> I noticed the external window doesn't get a scrollbar when the content doesnt fit (on Firefox 37). So when you open the TiddlyWiki Pre-release tiddler in an external window, most of the content is not reachable.

I can't reproduce that problem on OS X - what operating system are you using?

I've uploaded a new prerelease that explicitly specifies that the window should have scrollbars, instead of relying on defaults. You can try it at:

http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[Alex V]

This was on Windows 7. Your change fixed it. Thanks! :)

[PMario]

On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 10:04:26 PM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote:

I can't reproduce that problem on OS X - what operating system are you using?

I could reproduce it with latest FF and win8.1
 

I've uploaded a new prerelease that explicitly specifies that the window should have scrollbars, instead of relying on defaults. You can try it at:

works now for me.
-m